From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Romain Porte Subject: Patch proposal for risky i2c addresses in i2c-tools Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:02:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20180105150248.3170-1-romain.porte@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from mail-he1eur01on0102.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([104.47.0.102]:18412 "EHLO EUR01-HE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751514AbeAEPDd (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:03:33 -0500 Sender: linux-i2c-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org To: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Cc: jdelvare@suse.de This patchset proposes a new option for risky i2c addresses between 0x78 and 0x7f that are currently disabled. This behavior is marked as not recommended, but is sometimes needed if you have a device using an address in this range. It was inspired by an email from Wolfram Sang [1] that encouraged to add this option for using i2c-tools with devices using this address range. [1]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-i2c/msg25295.html Please review! Romain.